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Not the most experienced in Latin, so this may seem redundant to most, but I'm trying to figure out how to say "to feed on (something)". I'm assuming I just change the case of the object ...
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St Jerome has in Gen 7:23, “ab homine usque ad pecus” but pecus is nominative (or perhaps genitive if the word is pecu) and not accusative. Am I misunderstanding something here?
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I just happened to see it somewhere & was curious what it means. Google translate says "let Justice be done, though the world perish" or "Let justice and the world perish.". I ...
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I am aware that classical Latin did not have words for "yes" and "no" in the same sense that English does. I know that they could express the idea of "yes" by either ...
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I want to translate the phrase "in question" into Latin, as in:
Please deposit the car keys next to the car in question, and then leave by the main door.
How would I express this?
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According to William Whitaker's Words it does:
adjunctum, adjuncti N N [XXXCO] quality, characteristic,
essential feature/attribute; collateral circumstance;
However, I'm wondering if it might ...
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Lewis and Short only give present stem forms of the verb appărĕre, appărio.
They say, quite rightly so, that it comes from ad+părĕre, and one would therefore expect the conjugation to be as that ...
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Many languages have well established "tongue-twisters" (phrases difficult to articulate). In my native Spanish, "classic" examples are
Pedro Pablo Pinto Pérez Pereira, pobre ...
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Background
In the TV series Fallet, some of the upper class of the fictional town of Norbacka use the phrase
supra se servitium
as a sort of salutation. Its meaning is never elaborated upon.
My ...
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Nearly every human language is named after the people who spoke it, from ancient Egyptian, Hebrew and Greek, to modern tongues such as English, German and Chinese. And then we have the language of the ...
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On August 28*, 2019 Duolingo announced its Latin course for English speakers.
Out of curiosity, I subscribed, but I'm just starting to peek into it.
My question is (if anyone has tried it in depth ...
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I'm a Stack-Overflow user, and usually, there is a sidebar where 'Hot' content from communities is shown.
Today, one of those questions was this: What should the corona virus be called in Latin?
Which ...
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This question came up recently in my choir: how should we pronounce “mihi”?
The sentence is from a psalm:
Quia fecit mihi magna qui potens est.
We’ve encountered it in two Magnificats, the first ...
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I'm wondering how to say "please" in Classical Latin like "please" as in "can I PLEASE have that?" or "PLEASE go away" or something like that.
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